Gaining Control of Someone Else's Computer to Carry Out Illicit

question 79

Multiple Choice

Gaining control of someone else's computer to carry out illicit activities without the user's knowledge

• A)Hacking
• B)Hijacking
• C)Phreaking
• D)Sniffing

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Definitions:

Tobacco Farming

The cultivation of tobacco plants for the production of cigarettes, cigars, and other tobacco products, historically a significant agricultural activity in the southern United States.

Seventeenth-Century Virginia

Refers to the English colony in North America during the 1600s, a period of early settlement, tobacco cultivation, and African enslavement.

Elite Plantation-Owning Class

Refers to the class of individuals or families who owned large areas of land used for agricultural production, specifically plantations, which often relied on enslaved labor in pre-Civil War America and other colonial contexts.

Puritans

English religious group that sought to purify the Church of England; founded the Massachusetts Bay Colony under John Winthrop in 1630.